01394nam a22001457a 4500 533314 533314 260512b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Reviewed by Iman Kumar Mitra 60480 Ancient INDIA’S soft power Biblio: A Review of Books 30(1-3), Jan-Mar, 2025: p.8-9 The golden road: How ancient India transformed the world by William Dalrymple Bloomsbury INDIA. 2024 482pp. Rs. 999(HB) ISBN 978-1-4088-6441-8. ABSTRACT The singularity of India as an idea that flowed from an almost unrated antiquity to the present day started to field the nihilist imaginary in the present day started to field the nationalist imaginary in the late 19th century. It became such a frenzied celebration in the early 20th century that even professional historian, Loke RC. Majumdar believed in fictional spree of the colon satin of South East Asia by Ancient Indian kingdoms.Dalrymple says that he does not endorse this view of colon satin by military force. His focus lies in the long history of India’s cultural influence as a ‘soft power, thousands of years before the term was coined across a region he calls an “Indosphere”. –Reproduced Biblio: A Review of Books BOOK REVIEW AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 408484 IIPA IIPA 2026-05-12 30(1-3), Jan-Mar, 2025: p.8-9 AR.138826 2026-05-12 AR